Revulsion
noun
A strong feeling of disgust or repulsion.
Upon seeing the gruesome scene, he felt a sense of revulsion.
noun
The act of drawing or turning back.
The doctor checked for revulsion of the patient's eye.
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noun
A strong feeling of disgust or repulsion.
Upon seeing the gruesome scene, he felt a sense of revulsion.
noun
The act of drawing or turning back.
The doctor checked for revulsion of the patient's eye.
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Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Intensity Matters
Use 'revulsion' to describe a very intense feeling of dislike, stronger than 'disgust'.
He looked at the moldy food with revulsion.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Mild Dislike
'Revulsion' is too strong to describe a mild dislike; it's used for extreme cases.
I turned away in revulsion when I smelled the rotten eggs.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Response
Revulsion encompasses both an emotional and a physical reaction of strong disgust.
The sight of violence filled the witness with revulsion.
Pro Tip 1/3Intensity Matters
Use 'revulsion' to describe a very intense feeling of dislike, stronger than 'disgust'.
He looked at the moldy food with revulsion.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Mild Dislike
'Revulsion' is too strong to describe a mild dislike; it's used for extreme cases.
I turned away in revulsion when I smelled the rotten eggs.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Response
Revulsion encompasses both an emotional and a physical reaction of strong disgust.
The sight of violence filled the witness with revulsion.
Pro Tip 1/3Intensity Matters
Use 'revulsion' to describe a very intense feeling of dislike, stronger than 'disgust'.
He looked at the moldy food with revulsion.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Mild Dislike
'Revulsion' is too strong to describe a mild dislike; it's used for extreme cases.
I turned away in revulsion when I smelled the rotten eggs.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Response
Revulsion encompasses both an emotional and a physical reaction of strong disgust.
The sight of violence filled the witness with revulsion.
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Adam Hochschild
American Writer
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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Michael Wolff
American Author
What's wrong with politics in the celebrity billionaire analysis is politicians. Populism is not so much a cry for economic equality, or even a disdain for elites, but a mass revulsion against the inauthenticity of politicians. Celebrities are real celebrities, politicians are fake ones.
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Svetlana Alexievich
Belarusian Journalist
Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what I heard, to return to a time when I lived in ignorance. More than once, however, I have seen the sublime in people and wanted to cry.
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Stephen Graham Jones
American Author
We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please.
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Daniel Ellsberg
American Celebrity
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
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Janet Fitch
American Author
Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing things about yourself that you don't want people to know.
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Dario Argento
Italian Director
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
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Richard Dawkins
English Scientist
I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.
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Edward Hall
English Lawyer
I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.
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Marshall McLuhan
Canadian Sociologist
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
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Adam Hochschild
American Writer
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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Michael Wolff
American Author
What's wrong with politics in the celebrity billionaire analysis is politicians. Populism is not so much a cry for economic equality, or even a disdain for elites, but a mass revulsion against the inauthenticity of politicians. Celebrities are real celebrities, politicians are fake ones.
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Svetlana Alexievich
Belarusian Journalist
Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what I heard, to return to a time when I lived in ignorance. More than once, however, I have seen the sublime in people and wanted to cry.
Quote examples
Stephen Graham Jones
American Author
We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please.
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Daniel Ellsberg
American Celebrity
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
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Janet Fitch
American Author
Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing things about yourself that you don't want people to know.
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Dario Argento
Italian Director
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
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Richard Dawkins
English Scientist
I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.
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Edward Hall
English Lawyer
I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.
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Marshall McLuhan
Canadian Sociologist
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
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